Example sentences of "about [pers pn] as [subord] [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Speaking of manners , ’ Belinda herself put in suddenly , in a rather small but very firm voice , ‘ I think it would be polite if you both stopped speaking about me as if I was n't here ! ’ |
| 2 | Even though his father had been dead for twenty years , she talked about him as if he were still alive . |
| 3 | You could talk about him as if he was n't there . |
| 4 | I do n't know why , but it seemed important to me to establish that we have n't any fuse-boxes ( and indeed we have n't ) , but she would n't allow this and was quite stern with me about it as if I were deliberately lying to her . |
| 5 | The money that the Minister has provided has been recycled more times than I can count — although he talks about it as if it were new money — and it will run out in April , but there is still no commitment to replace it . |
| 6 | It 's a sort of passed on from one generation to the next and it is you know , you will see people , hear people talking about it as if it was yesterday . |